"Fellini is a patron saint, like Bunuel, Roy Anderson, Jodorowsky. There is no filmmaker who has not been infected by Fellini, just as no musician can do without Mozart or Bach. His cinema is the means most similar to dreams And I hope that Saint Fellini has protected me this time too ", says
Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
who presented 'Bardo' in competition in Venice 79," an emotional journey rather than a biographical story ".
Inarritu, in the film (at the cinema and then from December 16 on Netflix which produced it), pays his personal tribute to the cinema of the Rimini master.
'Bardo - The false chronicle of some truths' tells of a journey suspended between memories and experiences of the Mexican journalist, documentary maker and writer Silverio Gama who is about to receive, as the first Mexican and Latin American, a prestigious award in America and for this reason he is also celebrated in homeland where he returns after years.
The story of this journey between Los Angeles and Mexico and back and the story of himself 'expatriate' and his family is the heart of a film that also talks about the history of the country, the tragedy of migrants trying to cross the border. , of the life of Mexicans in California.
All like a dream,
The film does not come by chance, "I am on the eve of 60 years, I am led to reflect, I am ready to accept, since 2012 I have been helped by a Vietnamese monk in meditation and this has given rise to something liberating for me. today 1 September is an important anniversary: on 1 September 2001 with my family we left Mexico and went to live in Los Angeles for a year, instead we have never left but this absence runs after me every day, Mexico becomes a state of mind and the stories I tell in Bardo interpret this absence. "
He admits Inarritu to live, like his protagonist Silverio, a condition of bardo, of limbo: "I'm in a middle ground, in America I'm Mexican, in Mexico I'm American".
